The number of people with dementia is expected to quadruple by 2050. Because of its high prevalence and level of associated morbidity, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease in particular, is already an urgent health and economic issue for the developed world, and a rapidly growing threat in developing countries. This thoroughly updated second edition of 'Fast Facts: Dementia' specifically aims to provide the primary care physician and other members of the healthcare team with the information they need to recognize and evaluate dementia and to provide optimum management and long-term care. • Offers a succinct review of the process of brain aging and its relationship to neurodegenerative disease. • Reviews the cause, course and treatment of each of the common illnesses that can provoke the dementia syndrome. • Enables the clinician to recognize the disease and to appreciate the basic principles of investigation and management. • Includes practical steps that the healthcare team can take to improve long-term care of patients and, perhaps, disease prevention Contents: • Basic neuroscience • The aging brain • Symptoms, signs and course • Neuropsychiatric complications • Clinical examination and investigations • Principles of care and treatment • Pharmacological treatment • Epidemiology of the dementing illnesses • Hypotheses on the causes of Alzheimer's disease • Future treatments • Useful resources
The number of people with dementia is expected to quadruple by 2050. Because of its high prevalence and level of associated morbidity, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease in particular, is already an urgent health and economic issue for the developed world, and a rapidly growing threat in developing countries. This thoroughly updated second edition of 'Fast Facts: Dementia' specifically aims to provide the primary care physician and other members of the healthcare team with the information they need to recognize and evaluate dementia and to provide optimum management and long-term care. • Offers a succinct review of the process of brain aging and its relationship to neurodegenerative disease. • Reviews the cause, course and treatment of each of the common illnesses that can provoke the dementia syndrome. • Enables the clinician to recognize the disease and to appreciate the basic principles of investigation and management. • Includes practical steps that the healthcare team can take to improve long-term care of patients and, perhaps, disease prevention Contents: • Basic neuroscience • The aging brain • Symptoms, signs and course • Neuropsychiatric complications • Clinical examination and investigations • Principles of care and treatment • Pharmacological treatment • Epidemiology of the dementing illnesses • Hypotheses on the causes of Alzheimer's disease • Future treatments • Useful resources
This up-to-the-minute reference explores current trends, disease etiology and associations, novel assessment tools, and modern laboratory tests to promote coordinated treatment of comorbid substance abuse, psychiatric disease, and general medical conditions-recognizing the causal relationship between substance abuse and medical and psychiatric diso
In this sequel to Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna, John Boyer picks up the history of the Christian Social movement after founder Karl Lueger's rise to power in Vienna in 1897 and traces its evolution from a group of disparate ward politicians, through its maturation into the largest single party in the Austrian parliament by 1907, to its major role in Imperial politics during the First World War. Boyer argues that understanding the unprecedented success that this dissident bourgeois political group had in transforming the basic tenets of political life is crucial to understanding the history of the Central European state and the ways in which it was slowly undermined by popular electoral politics. The movement's efforts to save the Austrian Empire by trying to create an economically integrated but ethnically pluralistic state are particularly enlightening today in the shadow of ethnic violence in Sarajevo, where began the end of the Austrian Empire in 1914. The most comprehensive account of any mass political movement in late-nineteenth century Central Europe, this two- volume work is crucial reading for anyone interested in Hapsburg history, German history or the history of social democracy.
Provides: over 26,000 academic institutions, 150,000 staff and officials; extensive coverage of universities, colleges and other centres of learning; and detailed information on over 400 international cultural, scientific and educational organizations.
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